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Jaafar, shu fi? If migrants are migrants to Anti-

The Eastern Europeans are taking away our Jobs! So think in the UK after Brexit vote, of all places, people who came as migrants into the country. Jaafar Abdul-Karim has visited.

Jafaar Abdul Karim during an Interview in London with a migrant, who comes from Iraq

How does the Arab Community in the UK on the outcome of the Brexit referendum? I wanted to learn and I am driven, therefore, to London. I tried to speak with as many people as possible, in order to get a good impression. What I heard there, surprised and annoyed.

Again and again British citizens with Arab migrant background told me that there were too many immigrants and foreigners in Britain, mainly from Eastern Europe. Therefore would you for the Brexit vote. Surprised, I asked: “you are yourself as a foreigner come here and have a migration background!?” It was quite different, I got to the answer. Finally, you are now British. And also Arabs out of their countries would flee because there is war. Eastern Europeans have it good in their home countries. It was a big difference. People who are come to ask for help in a foreign country, show a subliminal to open racism towards people who share the same fate. Migrants to Anti-migrant!

Selfish Attitude

It can’t be that many of them had it easy and now the fear of losing your self-constructed safety. But the attitude of what’s not true, she is incredibly selfish, to Me it’s okay, the others I don’t care. I can’t understand. Should not just show people who have had similar experiences, empathy and compassion towards migrants?

DW editor Jaafar Abdul Karim

I know, I think, quite a lot about Arab migrants. Because I am a German with Arabic migration background, and it’s my Job to talk with them. It is not far for me to want to generalize or generalize, as a Journalist and Shabab talk-Moderator I want to. But the experience in London to fit the, what I have noticed again and again in my Talks with migrants in the Studio and with Arabs in their home countries. I know now that many – especially migrants – to criticise my Text and on FB post: “Yes, but, the Europeans are racist.” But the one makes the other better. Racism and intolerance are always wrong, no matter who says what.

Pecking order among the migrants

In refugee homes in Berlin, I’ve heard several times: “We are here in a home with people who come from Afghanistan or Mali. With ‘such’ people we want to have nothing to do.” A Syrian said: “What do You think we are from Somalia?”

An Egyptian in London told me that Eastern Europeans would take away all the Jobs. He also came because of a Job to the UK and am now working as a driver.

Or when I was in Jordan, Many Palestinians have lived as refugees in Jordan, saying today: “So, we do not want Syrian refugees in Jordan.”

Or some of the Syrians are come up to years ago to Germany, told me: “Germany should take no Syrians any more!”

In Lebanon, you will hear again and again: “What’s with all the Syrians?” The Lebanese seem to have forgotten that they had in their own country, civil war and everywhere in the world escaped.

The interaction of stress!

This classification according to Religion, skin color, ethnicity, or origin is exactly the reason why it looks like in the Arab countries as it looks! A lot of people have to flee. Many Arabs describe their identity through their affiliation to a Nation or Religion. While we are all people. In the Moment, where I take the other only about his nationality, or ethnicity true negation I exactly. Human rights apply to all – so it is in a right state! But this principle, many do not know, because they know from their home countries. In 2012 the EU was awarded for her commitment to peace, reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe the Nobel peace prize. Behind it is the great opportunity to see the world differently: to emphasize tolerance, commonalities and each other’s company.

Just migrants should never forget how important it was that others showed you tolerance. I don’t think it’s completely wrong to tolerate others, if you still yourself in the tolerance-use-Phase. Or the own children or grandchildren are in need of, or will be. Just you should know what it is like to be discriminated against, or lump sum. It disappointed me, if these people sympathize now, where you can feel safe with other people that have taken self – decision or had to make, to leave home, to leave everything behind and to start a risky new beginning.

Solidarity and acceptance are what we need, to migrants, especially of Migrant.

Jaafar Abdul Karim, 33, is Moderator and managing editor of the Arabic-speaking youth show “Shabab talk” to the German wave. The Format reached with his socio-critical topics, an audience of millions in North Africa, the middle East and the Gulf region. Was born Jaafar Abdul Karim in Liberia, his parents are from Lebanon. There and in Switzerland, he grew up, he studied in Dresden, Lyon, London, and Berlin, where he lives today. His column is called “Jaafar, shu fi?”, Arabic for: “Jaafar, what’s up?”

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